The Golden Tradition: An Anthology of Urdu Poetry

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The unique character of this anthology is matched by its completeness. Specimens of Urdu poetry from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century provide historical perspective, representative selections from 15 poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries give an unusually rich harvest from one of the greatest creative periods in this literature. More than 100 poems of Mir and Ghalib, in addition to three of the famous long poems of Nazir are included.

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